Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. It's a cute idea, but what it amounts to is a large stack of paperwork at a time of the school year when I'm already drowning in paperwork. I'm writing this to say publicly: ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. I love my job, and I love my students. However, as I near the end of my 26th year of teaching, ...

At the end of every school year, many parents ask me to write a personal note to their student as an inscription in a certain ...

Joselyn Atyang has always believed in the transformative power of education. As headteacher of Bidong Primary School in Uganda's Kiryandongo ...

This teacher want to remind parents that they spend all year teaching and helping your child. A huge mound of extra paperwork ...

A devoted teacher asks parents to refrain from requesting end-of-year book inscriptions, expressing how it adds to her ...

"If you appreciate what I did for your child, please show your appreciation by not laying extra work on me at the end of the ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

I am a teacher. I love my job, and I love my students. However, as I near the end of my 26th year of teaching, there's ...